Explanation for Question 40 From the Reading Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 10
Question 40 asks, which choice best describes essential difference between how beverage 2 and passage one and Brian and passage to view the concept of Liberty as 3 it is realized in the United States. So let's go back into the passages and 4 see what each author has to say about this. 5 In passage one, we see beverage saying that the 6 United States is a people Imperial by virtue of their power by right, 7 their institutions by authority of their heaven directed purposes. 8 So basically what beverage is saying here, that it is the United States, 9 God given rights to be imperialist into expand and passage 10 to we see at the bottom there that it says the author says we 11 can not repudiate the principle of self-government in the Philippines without weakening that principle 12 here. So what this is saying is that if you expand 13 imperially into the Philippines, you're weakening the principle of self-government that is valued so 14 much in the United States. 15 So let's see which answer choice best matches. 16 Another thing to note here is to help us eliminate answer choices and 17 passage. One imperialism is seen as positive, 18 whereas in passage to imperialism is seen more negatively. 19 So let's look at the answer choices, answer choice a says, 20 beverage presents it as a direct inheritance of European colonization. 21 Whereas Brian presents it as a sharp break from earlier governments in Europe. 22 So answer choice a is going to be incorrect because as we saw in 23 the e...